# Desești <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">דעסעשט</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Desești (Romanian), Desze (Hungarian)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Romania, Maramureș County</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>47.767 23.850</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>to 1920</td><td>Desze</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary — Máramaros County (Desze)</td></tr> <tr><td>1920–1940</td><td>Desești</td><td>Kingdom of Romania</td></tr> <tr><td>1940–1944</td><td>Desze</td><td>Hungary (Second Vienna Award)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Desești</td><td>Romania — Maramureș County (from 1944)</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Desești (Hungarian Desze) is a village/commune in Maramureș County, ~28 km south of Sighetu Marmației. It belonged to Hungary's Máramaros County until the 1920 Treaty of Trianon placed it in Romania, then was reoccupied by Hungary in 1940. Maramureș was a strongly Hasidic Jewish region (settlement from the 17th–18th c.); in May 1944 the region's Jews — including the Desești area — were ghettoized and deported directly to Auschwitz-Birkenau. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Desești, JewishGen Yizkor (Maramures), Holocaust in Romania</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Kaszriel Lung (b.1874)]] | Born 11/09/1874 | | [[Hersch Lung (b.1877)]] | Born 02/11/1877 | | [[Simon Lung (b.1879)]] | Born 11/05/1879 | | [[Jakob Lung (b.1796)]] | Died 06/26/1880 | | [[Niszen Lung (b.1883)]] | Born 03/01/1883 | | [[Czipre Lung (b.1889)]] | Born 10/26/1889 | | [[Rochel Laje Lung (b.1892)]] | Born 08/13/1892 | | [[Hudel Lung (b.1894)]] | Born 02/20/1894 | | [[Etye Lung (b.1894)]] | Born 03/01/1894 | | [[Jocheibet Lung (b.1896)]] | Born 01/16/1896 | | [[Rifka Lung (b.1898)]] | Born 06/19/1898 | | [[Mozes Lung (b.1900)]] | Born 07/22/1900 | | [[Etje Maria Appel (b.1810)]] | Died 12/31/1905 | | [[Etelka Etye (b.1908)]] | Born 07/09/1908 | | [[Jozsef Marton Lung (b.1910)]] | Born 03/10/1910 |